Baby (2010 film)
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| Directed by | Daniel Mulloy |
| Produced by | Ohna Falby |
| Written by | Daniel Mulloy |
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Arta Dobroshi Daniel Kaluuya Josef Altin |
| Cinematography | Lol Crawley |
| Edited by | Dan Robinson |
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Sister Films
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| Distributed by | Film Four |
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26 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English & Bosnian |
Baby is a Brixton set drama short film, written and directed by Daniel Mulloy. Baby premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and went on to win multiple awards including the coveted British Independent Film Award.
A young woman (Arta Dobroshi) witnesses another woman being robbed, on a bustling London street. She watches and realizing no one else will intervene the young woman tries to stop the mugging. She bravely confronts the thief (Daniel Kaluuya) only to find that he follows her home. As their journeys continue each is revealed to be struggling with their own issues of pain and intimacy.
Baby is Daniel Mulloy's follow up to his highly successful trilogy of short films that include BAFTA Award winning Antonio's Breakfast, European Film Award Nominee Dad and Slamdance Film Festival Grand Jury winner Son.
Baby was commission by Film Four and the British Film Institute as the last in their successful Cinema Extreme short film strand.
The film was based on an event Mulloy witnessed:
"I travel routinely on the subway and get off at the same stop every day. I then walk a hundred meters to the bus stop. Like most people, I keep to myself, comfortable in my own world. I was in this routine when I saw a woman being pick-pocketed. I interrupted the thief just as Sara does in Baby. It turned out to be a crew working together - they pulled out knives. The bubble of my routine was popped. I wanted to put my lead character into a similar scenario, then watch as she is followed onto the bus by one of the guys."'.Daniel Mulloy Short Shot Sundance
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